Congressman Lynn Westmoreland(GA) wants 10 commandments everywhere but only knows 3

Nothing like taking a video by Colbert seriously.

I love the Colbert Report, but what the fuck. If you're gonna pass something off as serious, get a credible news source.
 
[quote name='AFStealth']Nothing like taking a video by Colbert seriously.

I love the Colbert Report, but what the fuck. If you're gonna pass something off as serious, get a credible news source.[/QUOTE]


how is it not accurate, and it was meant as a joke, but got moved here so now its serious
 
[quote name='Ikohn4ever']how is it not accurate, and it was meant as a joke, but got moved here so now its serious[/quote]

Nothing on the VS boards is serious.

I certainly haven't seen any cloudsong.
 
[quote name='Ikohn4ever']how is it not accurate, and it was meant as a joke, but got moved here so now its serious[/QUOTE]


I'm sure you've seen reports from the Colbert Report, as well as the Daily Show. It's obvious they make their guest interviewees look like morons for it's humor value. Hell, for all we know, everything is staged. Nothing on that show should be taken for anything other than satire and humor.
 
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgEzfDDyBHM[/MEDIA]

Here is a Youtube link. By the way, I am not a religious person and I know 8 out of the 10 commandments.
 
[quote name='AFStealth']I'm sure you've seen reports from the Colbert Report, as well as the Daily Show. It's obvious they make their guest interviewees look like morons for it's humor value. Hell, for all we know, everything is staged. Nothing on that show should be taken for anything other than satire and humor.[/QUOTE]


they may make fun of things but what they make fun of is real news
 
I saw this last night. I could name 8 off the top of my head, though I missed adultry for some reason. I generally know adultry so I think that was a fluke and I normally would have named 9. The only one I never think of is the god's name in vain one.
 
[quote name='Xevious']Here is a Youtube link. By the way, I am not a religious person and I know 8 out of the 10 commandments.[/quote]

Normally I cringe at these interviews, but the congressman was so irrefutably stupid it was pure funny to watch him get completely ridiculed.
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']I saw this last night. I could name 8 off the top of my head, though I missed adultry for some reason.[/quote]

That one I remembered: Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife.
 
I just realized there are different versions, since "though shall not commit adultery" and "thou shall not covet thy neighbors wife" are different commandments in some versions. I knew the neighbors wife one, forgot adultery.

According to wikipedia the jewish one is:

1. "I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. Thou shalt have no other gods besides Me... .."
2."Do not make a sculpted image or any likeness of what is in the heavens above..."
3."Thou shalt not swear falsely by the name of the LORD..."
4."Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy"
5."Thou shalt honour your father and your mother..."
6."Thou shalt not murder"
7."Thou shalt not commit adultery."
8."Thou shalt not steal."
9."Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor"
10."Thou shalt not covet your neighbor's house..."

In Catholicism it's:
1.You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath
2.You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain:
3.Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy
4.Honor your father and your mother
5."You shall not kill."
6."Neither shall you commit adultery."
7."Neither shall you steal."
8."Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor."
9."Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife"
10. "and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's."

Then there's the most common one among protestants:


1. You shall no other gods before me
2. You shall not make a graven image.
3. You shall not take God's name in vain.
4. You shall not break the Sabbath.
5. You shall not dishonor your parents.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not commit perjury.
10. You shall not covet.

I only know the Catholic ones.
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']10. "and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's."[/quote]

This commandment is the awesomest, for obvious reasons :D
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']I just realized there are different versions, since "though shall not commit adultery" and "thou shall not covet thy neighbors wife" are different commandments in some versions.[/quote]

To "Covet" is another way of saying to "Desire"- So there is a small distinction between "To desire your neighbor's wife" and "have adultery with your neighbor's wife".
 
[quote name='Xevious']To "Covet" is another way of saying to "Desire"- So there is a small distinction between "To desire your neighbor's wife" and "have adultery with your neighbor's wife".[/quote]

I know what covet means. When you said "that one I remember: though shall not cover they neighbors wife" I thought you meant that the adultery one was the one you mentioned.
 
Lets not forget the five "lost" commandments. :D

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Mel Brooks owns.
 
[quote name='Kyz']Lets not forget the five "lost" commandments. :D

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Mel Brooks owns.[/quote]

Well, he didn't completely make it up:
After seeing that the Israelites had gone astray during his absence and his brother Aaron had made the Golden Calf, Moses broke the tablets (Exodus 32:19).
God subsequently commanded Moses to carve two other tablets like the first (Exodus 34:1). In Exodus 34:27-28 Moses was commanded to recreate the tablets, and to rewrite the commandments himself.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_commandments#Breaking_and_replacement_of_the_tablets
Also:
The Ritual Decalogue is one of the two very different lists within the Torah that are known as the Decalogue or Ten Commandments. The Ritual Decalogue is the list of commandments in Exodus 34. As they concern points of ritual, rather than ethics, they are viewed as having minor significance compared to the Ethical Decalogue. Consequently, although the Ritual Decalogue appears in the text at the point where God inscribes the Ten Commandments into the two stone tablets, and it is they rather than the Ethical Decalogue which are identified as the Ten Commandments, it is the Ethical Decalogue which is commonly believed to be inscribed on the tablets.

Compared to the Ethical Decalogue, the Ritual Decalogue is clearer as to where one commandment ends and the next begins; and as the Ritual Decalogue is less important in most modern faiths, it is less divisive to enumerate its commandments. To paraphrase,
  1. Worship no other god than Yahweh: Make no covenant with the inhabitants of other lands to which you go, do not intermarry with them, and destroy their places of worship.
  2. Do not make molten idols.
  3. Observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days in the month of Abib.
  4. Sacrifice firstborn male animals to Yahweh. The firstborn of a donkey may be redeemed; redeem firstborn sons.
  5. Do no work or even kindle a fire on the seventh day. Anyone who does so will be put to death.
  6. Observe the Feast of First Fruits and the Feast of Ingathering: All males are therefore to appear before Yahweh three times each year.
  7. Do not mix sacrificial blood with leavened bread.
  8. Do not let the fat of offerings remain until the morning.
  9. Bring the choicest first fruits of the harvest to the Temple of Yahweh.
  10. Do not cook a goat in its mother's milk.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_Decalogue
 
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